Pocket register and indicator



(No Model.)

T. STOGKER. POCKET REGISTER AND INDICATOR.

Patented Apr. 24, 1894.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS STOCK-ER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

POCKET REGISTER AND INDICATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 518,797, dated April24, 1894. Application filed March 20 1893. I Serial No, 466,814- (Nomodel.)

To all whom itmcty; concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS STOCKER, of the city of St. Louis andState ofMissouri, have invented certain new and useful Improve ments in PocketRegisters and Indicators, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description, reference being had to the accom panying drawings,forming a part -hereof.

My invention relates to an improved pocketregister and indicator andconsists in the novel arrangement and combination of parts,

as will be more fully hereinafterldescribed and designated in the claim.

The object of my improvement is to con size and design of a watch,adapted to be carried in the vest or other pocket, and provided withmeans for registering different sums of money, indicating engagementsfor different dates, total aggregations of cost, or in fact anything towhich it may be applied.

In the drawings: Figure l is adetail elevation of my invention with theface exposed. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the sameviewed when lyingfiat upon its back.- Fig. 3 is a detail transverse sectional view takenthrough a line 3-3 in Fig. 1. Fig. 4a is a detail plan sectional viewtaken through aimed- 1 in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a detail plan sectional viewtaken through a line 5.5 in Fig. 3. Fig. 6

is a detail enlarged View of the mechanismwhich operates thelarger-indicator. Fig. 7 is a detail elevation of the means foroperating the smaller pointers. Fig. 8 is a detail enlarged view of thepins made use of in carrying out my invention. Fig. 9 is a detailsectional view taken on a line 99 in Fig. 1, and showing a sideelevation of a part of the mechanism for operating the lar er pointer,and the opening for the insertion of the pin shown in Fig. 8.

Referring to the drawings: 1 indicates the case, which is similar insize and form to that of the ordinary style of watch-caseso that theinstrument can be readily carried in the pocket, the same being providedwith a fobring 2 and a spring adjusted and controlled lid 3. The back-4.of the case is formed integrally with the rim 5, and it cannot open, asis the case in some watches. A transparent circular glass 6 shieldsnearly the entire dial 7 of the accounter, leaving a circumferentialportion 8 between the rim 5 and said glass cover 6, for the location ofcertain parts. The

I inner surface of the back 4 is provided with a circumferentialdepression 9 adjacent the side rim 10 in which certain parts arelocated; and located farther toward the center of the back than saiddepression 9 is an annular depression 11 and an innermost depression 12,

thus leaving three raised portions 13, 14, and

15, respectively, said projection 15 being in the center of the case.The projection 15 is provided with a conical depression 16 in -.which islocated the inner end of the shaft 17 which is provided intermediate ofits length with a horizontal bevel gear 18, and upon its upper end andabove theface or dial 7 with an indicating pointer 19 which projectsboth ways from the center of its axis. The bevel gear 18 meshesinto avertical bevel gear 20 upon the inner end of the shaft 21, whose outerend is provided with a ratchet wheel 22 located in the circumferentialrim 5. This shaft extends radially. The ratchet teeth upon said wheel 22are adapted to be engaged by a spring controlled pin 23 provided uponits upper end and exterior of the rim 8 with a button 2 2 by means ofwhich the same is pushed downwardly. The spring 25 which is coiled aboutand controls said pin' 23 is located in an opening beneath said rim- 8and normally keeps said pin 23 at its outward limit, althoughcontinuously engaging the ratchet teeth. The pushing down of said pin 23by pressing upon the button 24: causes said ratchet wheel 22 to berotated or moved step by step, likewise its shaft 21 and the bevel gear20, this movement being imparted to the bevel gear 18 upon the shaft 17,thus operating the pointer 19 and causing its pointed end to point to aseries of numerical signs arranged around the outer circumferential edgeof the dial plate 7.

The operator may set the large pointer in the morning so that it willstand opposite any of the marks or signs arranged around the edge of thesaid dial-plate, for the purpose hereinafter mentioned.

Arranged radially around the dial 7 and within its circumferentialborders are a series of small dials 26, each of which in this instancehave indicating marks arranged around their borders counting from ten toa hundred units, and said sub-dials 26 are provided with registeringpointers 27 mounted upon the outer ends of shafts 28. Said shafts 28 areprovided intermediate of their length with ratchets 29 adapted to beengaged by the arm 30 pivotally secured in the boxing 31. The lower endof said arm 30 is pro vided with means for normally engaging saidratchets, a spring 33 also extending from said arm to a point in the rimof the case, and retaining said arm in such position. Located upon theopposite side of the ratchet wheels from the engaging point of the arms30 and adapted to engage the teeth in an opposite direction, are detentpawls 3 L controlled by springs 35 and adapted to keep the ratchetwheels from reversing. A red 86 projects through the boxing 31 bothabove and below the same and is provided upon its upper end with abutton 87, and the lower end 36 of said pin and a portion of the boxingis adapted to operate in the opening 39 in the portion 10 forming a partof the back 4. Located upon the lower end 36 of said rod 36 between thebottom of the opening 39 and the lower end of the box 31 is a spring 40which normally keeps the rod 36, box 31, and attached parts at theiroutward limit. Pushing down upon the boxing 31 by the pressure upon thebutton 37 turns the ratchet wheel 29 and consequently the sub dialpointer 27 Located within the space inclosed by the subdials 26 andabove the dial7 are small rotating dials 41 upon which in this instanceare indicated the numerals 1, 2, 3, and t indicating a like number ofhundreds. The said rotating dials 41 are located one closely adjacenteach of thesmall dials 26, so that the marks upon them may be read inconnection with the marks upon the immediately adjacent small dial andthe pointer thereof. The said rotating dials are not provided withseparate pointers, as such are not needed. The said dials ll are mountedupon pins 42 and upon said pins near their lower ends are providedcollars 4.3 which control the upward movement of said pins. Mounted uponsaid pins intermediate of their length are ratchets 44 provided in thisinstance with only four teeth adapted to be engaged by the arm 45secured to the upper sides of the ratchets 29. Said ratchets 29 aresupposed to be provided with one hundred notches so that when they havemade a complete revolution the arm a5 engages one of the teeth of theratchet a l and turns the sub-dial 41, thus indicating a hundred or moreunits.

As will be especially seen in Fig. 1, there are six sub-dials 26, sixsub-dials 4.1 and consequently six rods 36 connecting with ratchets 29.The ratchets are arranged in radial order as well as the dials.

Six small openings 46 are placed at radial points around the rim of theplate 8 and are indicated by Roman letters which are pre .sumed to standfor the different days of the week, and into said openings 46 areadapted to be placed pins 47 which are normally located in openingsadjacent the fob-ring 2, said pins being inserted in said openings 46 toremind the user of any engagements he may have upon the date indicated.

The device is extremely simple in its operation and durable in itsconstruction, all of the dials, sub-dials, and indicators being locatedunder the glass (3 and therefore not liable to become deranged by anycontact with other parts therefore making the invention practically freefrom any breakage by inc-3- dling.

As above stated the device can be used for keeping accounts of sums ofmoney, the number of pounds of any desired substance, the number ofmiles which a traveling man uses from his mileage book, and othernumerous uses to which said device could be placed.

The number of sub dials and their necessary operating parts could belessened or increased without in any way changing the material idea andscope of myiuvention. Ipropose to use five of the sub-dials, each havingone hundred indicating marks to represent cents,to indicate the total offive dollars, and the remaining sub-dial I desire to use as in dicatingminutes of the day, and the large pointer 19 should be set to pointtoward the initial which stands for the day of the week upon which anyevent or engagement occurs, and also to indicate the day upon whichcertain things or accounts are recorded by the small pointers 27.

From the above it will be observed that there is a mutualinterdependence between the large pointer 19 and its dial and the smallpointers 27 and their dials, for the reason that the operator may setsaid large pointer in the morning to indicate any particular day of theweek, and then make use of the smaller pointers and their dials andmechanism for the purpose of indicating different engagements, orregistering diiferent sums of money expended or made on that day. Itwill be further observed that I have provided an instrument of the classdescribed, wherein there are a series of separate pointers, eachprovided with separate operating.

mechanism and capable of being moved step by step. Any one of the smallpointersmay be moved independently of the large pointer, and all thepointers are operated by a very simple movement of the operators fingerengaging push buttons. There is also a mutual interdependence betweenthe small pointers 27 and the small rotating dials 41, for the reasonthat said small rotating dials are located one closely adjacent each ofthe small dials 26, so that the numerals marked upon said rotating dialsmay be read in connection with the marks immediately adjacent the smalldial 26 and the pointer thereof. The rotating dial, which is immediatelyadjacent any one of the said small dials 26, is 1'0- i tated step bystep progressively as movement is imparted to the immediately adjacentsmall pointer 27 of said dial 26.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim is An improved pocketregister and indicator, comprising a casing of a size to be carried-inthe pocket, and provided with a large dial and a series of small dials,the latter being located in a circle and all of such dials fixed to saidcasing, said large dial having a circumferential portion 8 which extendsaround it, and said circumferential portion provided with marksindicating the consecutive days of the week, a large pointer mountedabove said dial, a shaft 17 upon which the large pointer is mounted, ahorizontal bevelgear-wheel 18 fixed upon said shaft, a bevelgear-wheel20 meshing with said bevel-gear- Wheel 18, a horizontal shaft 21.located within said casing beneath said large dial and extendingradially to a point adjacent the marginal edge of said casing, and uponthe inner end of which the said bevel-gear-wheel 20 is c fixed, avertical ratchet-wheel 22 fixed upon 25 the outer end of said shaft 21,avertical pushpin 23 mounted in said casing so that its inner end mayengage the teeth of said ratchetwheel, a push-button mounted upon theouter end of said push-pin, a spring for retaining said push-pin at thelimit of its outward movement, a series of small pointers mounted torotate one above each of said small dials, and means for impartingmovement to each of said small pointers independently of each 35otherand of said large pointer, substantially as herein specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS STOGKER. g)

Witnesses HERBERT S. ROBINSON, ALFRED A. EIoKs.

